St Helen's House is a Grade II* listed building in the Norwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1972. Nursing home. 3 related planning applications.

St Helen's House

WRENN ID
hollow-moulding-twilight
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Norwich
Constituency
Norwich South MP: Clive Lewis (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 June 1972
Type
Nursing home
Address
St Helen's House, Bishopgate, NR1 4EJ
OS grid reference
TG 236 090
Coordinates
52.63313, 1.30379
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St Helen's House is a former house, now a nursing home, built in the 19th century with a 18th-century rear section. The building features red and grey brick with a black pantile roof and has a squat T-shaped plan. It is two storeys high, with a three-bay central block flanked by two-bay recessed wings on each side. The central bay is semi-circular and includes a central door with a rectangular fanlight, flanked by Doric columns that support a fluted architrave and a small hood. The central bay has three windows, and all windows throughout the building are sash windows with glazing bars and rubbed brick flat arches. The exterior is finished with a bracket cornice and hipped roofs, while the centre bay is topped with a conical lead roof.

Inside, the oval entrance hall features three curved doors and a cornice. There is a simple mahogany staircase that leads up to an oval fluted skylight. Above the hall is an oval room that contains a painting believed to be by Angelica Kauffmann. To the right is a music room with a painted domed ceiling and panels above the doors. To the left, another room has a coved ceiling with moulded Adam-style swags, although it had 20th-century partitions when inspected in February 1984.

Local climate

St Helen's House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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